Clean Slate

Thomas Mann said, ~Time has no divisions to mark it's passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.~ As we start to turn the last page of 2004, we inevitably start a new one as 2005 approaches in a couple of days. Within this past year, we've all been through many experiences that were considered memorable and unforgettable. Yet, whether they were bad or good, it's those experiences that are now in the past; though not forgotten it will stick with us. When one looks back at 2004, did you make every moment count or was every possible moment thrown out the window?

If you think about it, each year we are given equal amounts of time for the opportunity to implement what one has learned over the last twelve months. It's within those twelve months that he or she has hopefully made every effort to make or reach his or her goals. As one goes for the gold, so to speak, the knowledge one attains while going through one's own professional or personal experience will hopefully give a person some new found insight. Insight in which a person asks himself or herself whether or not the time one has used was completely wasted or not. Initially, time can be either your best friend or your worst enemy and it's the one thing that you can never stop.

In this last year, each of us have experienced all sorts of emotions that have lifted one up, brought one to his or her knees, or brought one to places in between. For our emotions can be associated with time because once you have the particular emotion such as anger, it's gone....for the most part. It's considered yesterday's news, in a manner of speaking, but tomorrow is an uncertainty, because one's anger may return like an unwelcome houseguest. Consequently, a person has no real guarantee that the emotions that he or she has carried in the past year will disappear. It's just a matter of knowing that it will probably happen all over again but under new circumstances.

Over the last twelve months, each of us have gone through our ups and downs when it comes to love. For some people the downs outweigh the ups, for others its vice versa, but for most people it was more of a balance. Subsequently, we can either waste and worry with the remaining time one has dwelling in ourselves or simply share the love; though it may not be reciprocated the way he or she truly wanted. Thinking about it, one can't slow time down, turn it off, or adjust it and when it pertains to love, time ultimately marches on. It's basically a part of life and the past mistakes and successes will unfortunately linger on in our hearts, as well as, in our minds for years to come.

In retrospect, its truly amazing how quickly the year has passed us by. In some ways, as you get older time just seems to go much faster than usual. One moment you turn 21, then the next moment you are 30 years old, and then you ask yourself what happened to those 9 years in between? Let me ask you this question, does it feel you've missed out on life or do you feel that you're keeping pace with it? As we make our new year's resolutions for 2005, one will attempt to keep them, but for how long? It will be 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds to 2006 so make the most of it; because when the clock strikes midnight, each of us will have that proverbial clean slate all over again.

~Have A Happy New Year Folks!~